Different Quote by Cornelia Parker

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

— Zadie Smith

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

— Billy Crudup

I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.

— Janet Evanovich

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

— Stephen Sondheim

I want my readers to find their own way.

— Alexandra Stoddard

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

— Ayn Rand

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach